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Iranwire – On December 27, 1981, six Iranian Baha’is, seven men and one woman, who had been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court, were executed. They were charged with being members of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Iran. The eight had been tried behind closed doors and without access to any lawyer, even a public defender, …

Iranwire – The husband of an Iranian journalist who has been behind bars for three months has asked supporters to write her letters. Niloofar Hamedi was arrested in a raid on the couple’s home September 22 by Ministry of Information agents, who ransacked the property and confiscated their laptops and mobile phones. She was one of the first journalists to …

Iranwire – “God may not forgive the state TV reporter who has turned to an interrogator and then a judge, and issued a verdict within two minutes that devastated a family,” the father of Aylar Haqqi, a 23-year-old victim of the security forces’ brutal crackdown on nationwideprotests, said while standing next to his daughter’s grave. “People tell me to seek justice …

VOA – Bernard Phelan, a French Irish tour operator who has been detained in Iran for the past three months, was “in the wrong place at the wrong time,” his sister said Wednesday. Phelan’s family spoke with The Irish Times about the diplomatic dispute he is involved in. According to the Times, Phelan, 64, was arrested by Iranian police on Oct. 3. He …

VOA – A group of countries led by Canada on Wednesday called for an arbitrator to settle claims against Iran over its shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane in January 2020. The move is a first step in possibly bringing a case against Iran at the International Court of Justice, which victims’ families have long demanded. “Those who lost …